Fishing hook



Apr.- 24, 1923.

I D. WALKER FISHING HOOK Filed Jan. 14 1922 Patented Apr. 24, 1923. p

UNITED STAT 1,452,636 PATENT critic's DAVID. WALKER, on NEW YORKQN. Y.

risnnve HOOK Application filed January 14,1922. Serial a. 529,154.

To all an item it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID TALKER, aresident of New York city, county and State of New York, and a citizenof Austria, have erence being had to the accompanying drawing, wherein1g. 1 1s a slde elevation of my unprovement illustrated in normalcondition;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional end view, the section being taken online 22 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view illustrating the top plate;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view, the section being taken on a line 4-4: inFig. 1; Fig. 5.is a perspective view of the bracket at the lower end ofthe frame member; and

Fig. 6 is a view similar. to Fig. 1, illustrating Ithe device'incondition for use.

' y improved fishing device, as herein illustrated, consists of a framemember made up of guide-rods 7 and 8, connected at their upper ends by aplate 9 and at their lower ends by a bracket 10. The bracket 10 includesears 11 and 12 to pivotally support a latch 13 which in this instance isof lattice formation, one of the cross membersle of which acts tocooperate with a catch 15 on the shank 16 of the hook 17 to lock thehook in its extended position, as indicated by full lines in Fig. 6. Thebracket 10 is further provided with extension members 18 and 19 and across-plate 20 having openings 21 and 22 through which the shank 16 ofthe hook passes. The upper end of shank 16 is secured to ahead 23slidably mounted on the guide rods 7 and 8. Between head 23 and bracket10, I place a relatively stiff spring 24: which surrounds shank 16 ofhook 17. The extension of bracket 10 supports a threaded stud 25 whichpasses through the cross member 26 of the latch 13. Between latch 13 andcross-member 26 and around to improvements in stud 25, I locate: aspring 27 to normally force the latch 13 outwardly, as indicated bydotted lines in Fig. 6. The stud 25 carries an adjustable thumb nut 28by means of which the outward position of latch 13 can be changed atwill. For instance, when fishing for fish having a large thick lip, thedis tance 29 between latchf13 and barb 30jof the hook 17 will be changedby screwing nut 28 inwardly or outwardly in order that said latch will,when, released, allow the end of the latch 13 to come in line with lipof the fish engaged by the hook. IVhen a fish takes the hook and, as isusual, pulls on the hook, the hook will be extended to the dotted lineposition in Fig. 6, thereby pulling the catch 15 away from cross memberor keeper 14c,

after which latch 13 will be forced out wardly by the spring 27 and awavfrom catch 15, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig.

6. If the fish has a thick lip, the latch 13 a would not, if not madeadjustable, come in line with the end of the lip of the fish;

therefore, the fish could tear himself off the hook. The latch willprevent the fish from tearing off the hook by moving in the direction ofthe arrow in'Fig. 6, as it will aline with the engaged lip of the fish.When the fish moves in the direction of said arrow, the pull upon thespring will be released, and said spring willpull the hook, causing thebarb of the hook to pass through the lip of the fish. Thespring 24 actsindependently of any pull upon the line-31' to move 'the'hooklongitudinally of the frame member. The frame may be encased in a casingrepresenting bait, such as an eel skin, or a cedar acket.

- Having descrlbedmy invention, what I desire to secure by LettersPatent is 1. In a fishing device, a frame member, a

hook slidably mounted thereon, a latch pivotally connected theretoarranged to latch the hook in extended position, a springv to force thelatch outwardly after it has been.

released, a spring to return the hook to normal position after the.latch has been released, and means to adjust the movement .of the latch.

gaged from the latch when said hook is fur- 5 a hook movably mountedthereupon, a When a fish pulls upon the hook.

there extended by the pull of a fish thereis moved to fishing position,means to mainupon whereby said spring Will pull the hook tain the hookin fishing position and also to into the lip of the fish on the hook.maintain the spring under tension, said 10 3. In a fishing device, aframe member, means being arranged to release the spring springassociated with the hook arranged to be placed under tension whensaidhook DAVID WALKER.

